Quotes About Degree

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.

I'm not going to lie - it's insulting to be praised for being a 'woman' with 'no college degree.'

I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by the general public as being literature of prediction, and it isn't.

Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.

Before I ever got into coaching, I got my law degree at Pepperdine.

There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

I went to college and got my degree in acting, but because it was all theater, I really consider my first couple years on 'Mad Men' as amazing training for working in television and for acting on-camera.

To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music.

Access to a college degree is critical.

The added work load of a degree has made me focus a lot more when I am in work.

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

I'm able to give a voice to the athletes around the world - use my degree for something other than the power play.

My master's degree was in English literature.

Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree.

I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.

It seems everyone knows a college degree is important, but few have a plan to keep it affordable.

I did a history degree once.

Pain leaves a mark, the degree depending on the person and the event.